"A Clockwork Orange": Violence and Corruption.

Alex, the fifteen year old narrator of Anthony Burgesss novel, A Clockwork orangish, lives in a society where violence reigns. This novel has a genuinely direct nature, and is often blunt to the point of offense, entirely this makes it more powerful and helps to further its point. This point is that everyone is tabu for themselves, whether they be the police, government or citizens of this society.

In this book, the police can be hardly as violent as Alex and his droogs, or gang. In fact, by the end of the novel, his droogs have themselves become the police. The police have no qualms about overcome people almost to the point of wipeout as they do with Alex both at the beginning, ...they all had a turn, bouncing me from one to the other corresponding some very weak bloody ball...and fisting me in the yarbles and the [mouth] and the belly and dealing out kicks...I [was] sick...on the floor... (70) and at the end of the book for no other fountain than

they feel like it. ...It was all panting and thudding against this like background of whirring far-offm engines... (150) There seems to be no difference

between the people being beaten by streets punks such as Alex and the police, who ar supposed to protect them.



The novel begins with the police doing pocket-sized to protect the citizens, for how else could a fifteen year old tyke and three of his friends rule the streets? They also seem to relish beating Alex for the reason that they dont get to do it often.

However, by the third portion of this book, crime is almost non-existent, but the police are far more brutal. Neither of these scenarios is the better of the two. In fact the cops are not...

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